Specialist fire investigators say evidence now suggests that the “likely cause
of the fire was malicious ignition”.

Sabah Usmani, 44, and her children Hira, aged 12, Muneeb, 9, Rayyan, 6,
Sohaib, 11, and her youngest daughter, Maheen, 3, died after a fire raged
through their house in Harlow in the early hours of October 15. Her husband,
Dr Abdul Shakoor, who desperately tried to get back into the property to
save his children, was the only